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Comment Re:Correction to headline (Score 5, Insightful) 144

In the short term it would most certainly hit profits, not merely because of lower revenues from interest, but because credit card is unsecured, bad debts taking a bigger bite out of profits. The ultimate result would be that it would become much harder to get a credit card. In the end consumers would effectively have their short-term lending capacity reduced.

Comment Re:Gravitational lensing says "no" (Score 4, Informative) 72

This demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of what light and gravity. Photons in a vacuum follow the curvature of space, that curvature being gravity. Mass bends space, the more extreme the mass, the greater the curvature, which photons follow. But the photons themselves have no mass.

Comment Re:This is fantastic! (Score 1) 99

I've done quite of work on Calc, and never had much of a problem. It's not a one-to-one match with Excel, but I've had few issues. I don't really use Powerpoint or Impress, save to view presentations, and haven't seen any significant issues.

I have used Writer *a lot* (I've written a novel and several proposals and projects). Once I got it used to it, I actually prefer the way I can work styles in Writer to Word, and every time I'm forced back into using Word, I find it just a huge pain in the ass. In general it doesn't molest docx files too much (unlike Google Docs which horribly mutilates styles).

I'm pretty much using LO full time at work now, and only use Word and Excel when I log on our Terminal Services server. I'm not sure I'd ever be brave enough to completely abandon Office, but I'm definitely not looking at further re-entrenching myself.

Comment Re:As if France would stand up to tyranny (Score 1) 70

The French have an interesting record with tyranny, including lopping off the head of a tyrant, and then lopping off the head of one of the tyrants that was instrumental in the first tyrant's head getting lopped off. The French Revolution makes that puny American War of Independence seem like a stroll in the park.

And perhaps we can also mention how there wouldn't even be a United States if France hadn't given the Continental Congress significant financial and military (particularly naval) aid.

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